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Eight people, including several involved in a photo shoot depicting a wedding party, were injured when a city pickup truck hit a group of pedestrians on the Near North Side Saturday afternoon, officials said. A vehicle struck the people -- at least one a child -- in a crash near Cedar and Rush streets about 12:20 p.m., said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli. People dressed as members of a wedding party -- the bride, groom and a toddler -- posed for pictures on a corner when those three people and the photographer were all struck by a Ford F150 pickup truck, Mirabelli said.

The father of a toddler who was injured Saturday afternoon when a drunk city worker drove into a crowd of pedestrians called the girl's caretaker "an angel on this earth" for pushing the girl out of the way. The toddler's father, Hugh Jones, filed a lawsuit against the city today after the accident left his daughter Tyler Jones injured as well as the girl's caretaker Jennifer Anton. “If she didn’t do what she did, my daughter Tyler wouldn’t be alive today,” said Jones of Anton in a press conference at his attorney’s office.

A driver's failure to signal as she exited the Jane Addams Tollway in Elgin led to what police are calling the largest heroin seizure ever in Kane County. A judge Wednesday set bail at $25 million for Claudia Chagoya, a 42-year-old El Paso, Texas, resident who, if convicted, could face up to 120 years in prison after Police say they found more than 15 pounds of heroin in a pickup truck being driven by Claudia Chagoya, 42, of El Paso, Texas. Authorities estimated a street value of $2.1 million for the drugs.

Rescue workers remove driver from pickup truck hit by a freight train in Riverdale this morning. (WGN Channel 9) A man was injured when a freight train hit his pickup truck in south suburban Riverdale this morning. Riverdale rescue crews responded shortly before 7 a.m. and removed the driver. A condition was not immediately available.The accident occurred along the CSX railroad tracks near Perry and Acme Avenues. Footage from WGN Channel 9's Skycam showed the driver's side of the pickup truck crushed against the train's engine.

Chicago police are searching for a driver who slammed a pickup truck into a South Side convenience store and stole an automated teller machine inside. Officials say the brown truck smashed into the store's door and front window early Tuesday. Store owner Chan Park said he doesn't know how much money was inside the ATM that was taken. The store, a Lucky Mart at 2900 W. 87th St., was closed and no one was hurt. Police say they were notified of the theft when the burglar alarm went off and a witness called.

Police officers who stopped a speeding driver in northwest Indiana found the body of a man he had fatally hit in the back of the pickup truck. An officer spotted blue jeans hanging from the truck's tailgate when he caught up with the truck in Lake Station late Saturday, according to Lake County court documents. Officers say they found the body of Paul Williams, 52, of Lake Station in the truck's bed. Prosecutors on Monday filed several charges against William Albrecht, 26, of Hobart, Ind., including felony driving while intoxicated causing death.

One person was critically injured tonight in an accident involving a Tollway Authority HELP vehicle and pickup truck on the Reagan Memorial Tollway (Interstate Highway 88) in Lisle, state police said. The crash occurred at 7:07 p.m. on eastbound I-88, just east of the Naperville Road exit, police said. The pickup struck the HELP truck while it was parked on the shoulder to assist a motorist with a tire change. The Tollway worker who was assisting the motorist was not injured, while the driver of the pickup was taken to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove in critical condition, according to police.

A man is hospitalized after the pickup truck he was driving slammed head-on into a tanker truck early this morning in southwest suburban Lemont, police said. Ice on the road may have been to blame.The pickup truck driver lost control about 8 a.m. on New Avenue just south of 127th Street and went into the southbound lane, where it collided with the tanker truck, State Police Sgt. Martez Malone said. The tanker truck was empty at the time. The pickup truck driver's injuries weren't believed to be life-threatening.

A 67-year-old Chicago man died over the weekend after his motorcycle slammed into the rear of a pickup truck in far southwest Morris. Killed was George Parratt Jr., of the 13300 block of South Buffalo Avenue in the city's Hegewisch community, Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll said tonight. Parratt died in a Peoria Hospital Saturday after his motorcycle rear-ended a pickup truck at about 2:45 p.m. at West US Route 6 and Ashton Road in Morris, Ingersoll said. An autopsy confirmed Parratt died of multiple injuries, Ingersoll said.

The Aurora Beacon News reports: Darlene McCue, 46, was killed and her 25-year-old daughter, Cristin, was injured when they were hit by a pickup truck while riding bicycles in Yorkville, officials said. Get the full story: suburbanchicagonews.com